Move to allow more US college students to enter

European women's individual championship

& Vagliano Trophy dates to change from 2010

NEWS RELEASE ISSUE BY LADIES GOLF UNION AND EUROPEAN GOLF ASSOCIATION

The Ladies’ Golf Union (LGU) and European Golf Association (EGA) have agreed on a change of dates for the 2011 Vagliano Trophy. The historic match, traditionally played one week following The Open Championship in late July, will be moved to late June, four weeks earlier. The new dates will become the permanent match fixture for the foreseeable future.
In 2011, the match will be played at Royal Porthcawl, Wales, on June 24th and 25th.The move has been motivated by a rearrangement of the EGA calendar to allow more US college-based Europeans to attend one of the year’s premier fixtures: the International European Ladies’ Amateur Championship.
In 2010, the event will be held on the 20th to 24th of July instead of in late August and will remain scheduled in this week, vacated by the Vagliano Trophy, for future editions.
Moving the Vagliano Trophy and European Ladies’ Amateur to their new dates will ease a hectic fixture list for the elite players and assist the LGU while it prepares for the Ricoh Women’s British Open.
The field of the British Ladies’ Amateur Stroke Play Championship, held in late August, will also benefit from the change.
From 2011, Vagliano Trophy team selections will be held earlier in the year.
The Vagliano Trophy was presented to the Comité des Dames de la Fédération Française de Golf and the Ladies’ Golf Union by Monsieur A. A. Vagliano, originally for an annual competition between France and Great Britain and Ireland.
Since 1959, by mutual agreement, the Continent of Europe competes against Great Britain and Ireland biennially.
The LGU and EGA look forward to the Vagliano Trophy’s successful continuity on the new dates.